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Testing the Packetbeat Installation
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Testing the Packetbeat Installation
editPacketbeat is now ready to capture data from your network traffic. You can test that it works by creating a simple HTTP request. For example:
curl http://www.elastic.co/ > /dev/null
Now verify that the data is present in Elasticsearch by issuing the following command:
curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/packetbeat-*/_search?pretty'
Make sure that you replace localhost:9200 with the address of your Elasticsearch
instance. The command should return data about the HTTP transaction you just created.